Eric,
I think I’ve cracked it. If you look up my log from about 15-5mins ago you might see what’s happening. Long story short, I was trying to isolate the issue and I had thought this was something to do with going from 16bits to 24bits tracks. But my experiments proved this was not the case. So I then set the DSP to resample to 192khz and that didn’t fix the issue so it’s not related to switching sampling rates. I then thought it might be to do with file formats but flac to MP3 or vis versa didn’t seem to evoke the issue and to be honest I can’t see how that would affect anything anyway.
So I started playing around with other things inside the device settings, Under DSD Playback Strategy, I changed “native DSD” to “convert to PCM”. Result = issue solved (at least as far as I can see).
What is odd is that the files that are having the issue are not DSD files at all. In fact, it’s almost the polar opposite in that MP3 files seem to give the most issues - pretty far removed from a DSD file!
Example, switching from Panthu Du Prince FLAC 24bits 44.1khz to Peter Selway “coming up for air” MP3
44.1khz 24bits 260kbps causes the white noise and dropout every time when DSD is set to “native”. Switching from the Peter Selway MP3 track back to the Panthu Du Prince track does not cause the issue. Both files are 44.1khz, 24 bit and the only difference is the file format and I guess data-rate is lot higher from the FLAC file.
So to conclude - I can now set my Singxer to 32bit operation and can avoid dropouts when playing any type of music from any format / bitdepth / dampling rate at the moment - as long as I keep DSD playback strategy to “convert to PCM”. Weird!!!
Mark